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These Laws shall be read to the students, and subscribed 
by them, after evening prayers, the first day of each term. 

At the close of each term a circular shall be sent to the 
parent or guardian of each student, exhibiting a general view of 
his expenses, deportment, and proficiency. 



At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Columbian Col- 
lege in the District of Columbia, on the 13th of January, 1824 ? 
the following code of Laws for the internal government of the 
College, was passed unanimously. 



O. B. BROWN, President, 



Enoch Reynolds, Secretary, 



COLUMBIAN COLLEGE. 



The Trustees of the Columbian College in the District of 
Columbia, deeply sensible of the great importance of the charge 
resting on them, in relation to the welfare of the students of this ris- 
ing Institution, have been solicitous to frame such a system of regu- 
lations, as should at once approve themselves to the understand- 
ings of the pupils, accelerate the progress of their education, im- 
prove and protect their morals, and, at the same time, impart 
confidence and satisfaction to their parents, guardians, and friends. 
These regulations, it is expected, the students, having deliber- 
ately assented and subscribed to them, will sacredly observe ; and 
that the Faculty, in giving them entire effect, will be supported 
by the judicious patron as well as by the Trustees. 

The College, in relation to the worship of God, recognises no 
sectarian principle. Although religious devotions are statedly 
observed in the chapel every Sabbath, at the request of any 
parent or guardian, the students have liberty to attend sanc- 
tuary privileges wherever it may be approved. The Trustees, 
however, earnestly recommend, that where immediate connex- 
ions cannot be found, the pupils, in such cases, be placed, in the 
intervals of divine service, under the particular care of some 
experienced acquaintance. Without this, they fear that the day, 
sacred to religious purposes, may be transformed into a season of 
folly and crime. Too strong a barrier cannot be thrown around 
the youth to protect him from harm, when not under the imme- 
diate observance of the President, Professors, or Tutors. 

It is, also, anxiously recommended, that visits to the City be 
requested as rarely as possible, being, when frequent, obviously 
unfavourable to those habits of studiousness, sobriety, and good 
order, which form the surest presage of future eminence. In 
this connexion, too, the Trustees cannot abstain from expressing 
their strong and deep conviction of the impropriety of much 
pocket money being allowed to students. Their confessed object 
is not to spend money, but to obtain a substantial and valuable 
education ; and too great latitude in this respect, it is deliberately 
believed, does more injury to Colleges and to the morals of stu- 
dents, than all other causes. The Trustees beseech parents and 
guardians to take this matter into most serious consideration, and 
not to place in the hands of the students* the means, and the induce* 



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mcnt,to inflict the greatest injury upon themselves and upon the 
Institution. 

They wish it to be distinctly understood, that all the proper 
College charges, exclusive of clothing, books, pocket money, 
and vacations, but including tuition, library, board, fuel, light, bed 
and bedding, room rent, steward's salary, servants, shoe blacking, 
&c. do not ordinarily exceed two hundred dollars a year. Ten dollars 
a year would, in their opinion, be quite asmuch as ought, in any case, 
to be allowed for pocket money. They wish it also to be understood,, 
that, while from their own habits and sentiments of freedom, the 
Trustees desire not to subject the students to the necessity of con- 
sulting some officer of the College for every the smallest item of 
expenditure, yet if parents and guardians give too much indul- 
gence in this respect, they will find themselves compelled to 
adopt such rules as shall constitute an effectual remedy. 

The Trustees need not add to the pledges they have already 
given, and the powerful motives with which they have, heretofore, 
found themselves animated, to spare no possible exertions to 
raise the Columbian College to a rank amongst the most prosper- 
ous and the most usefulj in this or any other nation, 



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CHAPTER I. 
GffittVU Of «)t <&OlltQt. 

1st. The President, Professors, and Tutors, shall constitute the 
Fuculty ef the College. 

2d. It shall be their duty to execute the laws of the College ; 
to reprove, or otherwise punish, such offences as may arise under 
them, or any misdemeanors which may not in these laws be spe- 
cifically recognised ; at the same time maintaining that kind of 
government which shall be wholly moral and paternal. 

3d. The exemplary discharge of social and religious duties is 
required of them. 

4th. They shall determine the times and number of recitations. 

5th. They shall appoint a clerk from among themselves, who 
shall record their proceedings. 

6th. The Faculty shall assign to the students their several 
rooms, and inform the steward of the same, at the opening of 
each term, on the arrival of any student, whenever they shall 
change the room of any student, when any student shall be dis- 
missed, and when any student shall have leave of absence for more 
than a week, that in all cases proper entries may be made in the 
steward's books. 

7th. Any memberof the Faculty may enter the room of any stu- 
dent, at pleasure, and some member of the Faculty shall visit the 
room of each student, at least once a day in study hours, and as 
much oftener as shall be deemed expedient. 

8th. Whenever a student shall be suspended from the College, 
it shall be the duty of the Faculty to communicate the case in 
writing to the President of the Board of Trustees, within three 
days after the same shall have been decided by the Faculty, with 
a statement of the nature and evidence of the offence. 

9th. The Faculty shall always be considered responsible to the 
Board of Trustees for their proceedings. 







CHAPTER II. 

tyttmtnt of m eon*©* . 

1st. The general superintendence of the government and re* 
piitation of the College is committed.to the President. 

2d. He shall provide that morning and evening worship be 
maintained in the College. 

3d. It is his right at all times to attend the recitation of any of 
the classes. 

4th. He shall personally superintend such branches of instruc- 
tion, as, in his judgment, the welfare of the institution shall re- 
quire, or as shall be assigned him by the Trustees. 

5th. He shall preside at the meetings of the Faculty, at Ex- 
aminations and Commencements, and shall confer the Degrees. 

6th. He shall have authority, whenever he shall judge it expe- 
dient, to call a meeting of the Faculty, in whose determinations 
his concurrence shall be necessary ; and, in cases of exemplary dis- 
cipline, he shall administer their decisions. 

7th. When the President shall be absent, any two members 
of the Faculty shall have power to call a meeting, at which meet- 
ing the chair shall be filled by a Professor, at the discretion of the 
members present. 

8th. Whenever, in the death, absence, or resignation of the 
President, it shall be deemed necessary for the interest of the In- 
stitution that his duties and prerogatives be exercised by another 
member of the Faculty, they shall devolve, pro tempore, upon 
such Professor as the Board of Trustees, or their Superintending 
Committee, shall appoint for that purpose. 



CHAPTER III. 

professor*. 

1st. It shall be the duty of every Professor to conduct the ex- 
ercises of the students in those departments of learning which 
shall be embraced in his professorship. 

2d. In case of the sickness or absence of any member of the Fa- 
culty, the members remaining shall supply the temporary defi- 
ciency. 



CHAPTER IV. 

JTtttors* 

1st. It shall be the duty of the Tutors, except in any special 
case when the Trustees or their Superintending Committee shall 
otherwise direct, to reside in the College — to attend the tables 
of the students, and ask a blessing, or call upon such as they may 
think proper, so to do— to require students to sit at table in such 
order as the Faculty or Tutors may direct — and any one of the 
Faculty shall send from the table any student who shall behave in 
any respect improperly. 

2d. They shall require a strict decorum in the College buildings, 
shall frequently visit the rooms of the students, and present to 
the Faculty all cases of insubordination, delinquency, or breach of 
the laws. 

3d. It shall be their duty to instruct such classes, and to hear 
such recitations, as the President and Professors shall direct. 



CHAPTER V. 

Stutrtuta* 

SECTION I. 

Admission into College. 

1st* Candidates for admission into the College, shall be exam- 
ined by the President, or by two or more of the Faculty, under 
his direction, which examination shall be attended to uniformly the 
day after»Commencement, and the day preceding the beginning of 
the ensuing term, and at such other times as the President or Fa- 
culty shall direct : any member of the Faculty may attend such 
examination. 

2d. The requisites for admission shall be — an acquaintance with 
English Grammar, vulgar Arithmetic, some judicious compen- 
dium of Geography, an ability to make Latin correctly, and to 
translate with facility Caesar's Commentaries, the works of Vir- 
gil, Sallust, the Select Orations of Cicero, the New Testament 
in Greek, and Grseca Minora ; and for an advanced standing, the 
studies of the class up to the time of admittance. No applicant, 
however, shall be admitted without satisfactory credentials of a 
good moral character ; nor from any other College, without a 
certificate of having left it without just cause for censure. 

3d. Immediately after his admission, each student shall apply 
to the Treasurer for a copy of the College Laws, (for which he 



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shall pay twenty-five cents,) which he is bound sacredly to observe, 
under the penalty of private admonition, public admonition, sus- 
pension, or expulsion, as the nature and aggravation of offences 
/ may require ; and ignorance of the Law shall never be admitted 
' as an excuse for any violation of these Rules. No student shall 
be admitted to the recitations of the College, until he shall have 
publicly subscribed, immediately after morning or evening 
prayers, the following declaration, to be recorded in a book to be 
kept by the Faculty for that purpose : 
• « We> whose names are underwritten, being admitted as students 
J in the Columbian College in the District of Columbia, have read 
*] with care and attention the Laws of said College, and do hereby 
solemnly promise to obey them. This declaration we make on our 
V faith and honour." 

_ This public assent to the Laws shall be renewed at the begin- 
ning of each term. 

4th. Each student, immediately after his admission into the 
I College, shall report himself to the steward, that his name may 
/ be entered on the steward's book ; and, while he continues a 
member of College, shall do the same at the beginning of each 
term, and on his return after any absence of more than a week ; 
f nor shall he be allowed to attend recitation or lecture, without a 
note from the steward, certifying that he has thus reported him- 
self. 

5th. Each student, on his admission into College, shall pay 
ten dollars for entrance, and, at the beginning of each Collegiate 
term, the tuition charge for the term, viz. : thirty dollars for the 
first, and twenty dollars for the second, each year ; also, if he 
board in College, fifteen dollars for the first term, and ten dollars 
for the second, in advance for boarding. All other charges, viz. : 
two dollars for the first, and one dollar for the second term, for 
the use of the Library ; nine dollars the first, and five dollars the 
second, for rent of the room and furniture ; five dollars the first, 
and three dollars the second, for bed and bedding ; four dollars the 
first, and three dollars the second, for the steward's salary ; 
three dollars the first, and two dollars the second, ^or ser- 
vants ; two dollars the first, and one dollar the second, for the 
cleaning and blacking of boots and shoes; thirty-seven and a 
half cents a dozen for washing. The boarding, fuel, and lamps, 
to be estimated from the bill of cost ; average of damages, private 
damages, whatever the amount, to be paid at the close of each 
term ; nor shall any student be admitted to recitation or lecture, 
without a note from the Treasurer, certifying that any preceding 
^lues, and all requisite advances, are satisfied. 

Dth. The students, on leaving their rooms at the close of each 1 
term, and whenever absent from any room more than two days, and 
those having charge of the keys of the Society rooms, shall de- y 
liver the keys of the rooms, respectively, to the steward. In any / 
instance of neglecting to do this, the student or students charge- / 
able with such neglect, shall pay the value of the lock and key / 
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SECTION II. 

Religious and Moral Deportment 

1st. It shall be the duty of every student, boarding in the Col- 
lege, and all others when at the College, to attend punctually and 
respectfully at the appointed hours, the exercises of morning 
and evening prayers, and all other religious services directed by 
the President or Faculty. It shall likewise be their sacred and in- 
dispensable duty to attend the public worship of God every Lord's- 
day in the College Hall, or in such congregation, and at such 
times, as the President and Faculty may approve : Provided, that 
students in the full communion of any particular Christian church, 
on presenting certificates of the same, shall have standing liberty 
from the Faculty, to attend the stated worship of God in such church 
on Lord's-day ; and firovided further, that standing liberty shall 
be given to any student to attend stated worship on LordVdays 
at any one particular Christian church, when the request of the 
parent or guardian of such student, expressed in writing, shall be 
presented to the Faculty for such leave to be granted ; but in no \ 
case shall this standing permission extend to meetings after sun- 
setting ; and if any student shall practise any fraud or deception, 
to obtain such liberty as is contemplated in either of the provisions 
of this article, or shall violate that liberty by neglecting to attend 
such place of worship, or by visiting other places without express 
permission from the President or Faculty, or by any indecorum 
whatever, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, for which 
he shall be liable to be deprived of every such liberty in future, 
in addition to any other punishment which such misdemeanor 
may incur. — >^ 

2d. The Faculty shall take such measures as they may deem most \ 
convenient and effectual, to ascertain all absentees from any of the 
College^ exercises, either in the week or on Lord's-days, and par- 
ticularly shall cause a roll to be regularly kept, and called uniformly 
before morning and evening prayers, and before or at the close of the 
religious services of the Sabbath in the chapel, as often as they shall 
deem it expedient ; and the absentees shall be reported to the 
Faculty, at least once in every week, and to the Trustees, or their 
Superintending Committee, as often as required : but in no case 
shall voluntary neglect be suffered to pass with impunity. 

3d. A Merit Book shall be kept by the Faculty, in which a 
record of the conduct of the students shall be preserved, their 
presence or absence from any of the prescribed exercises — their 
excuses for absences, and whether satisfactory or otherwise — par- 
ticular instances of impropriety noted — and damages, when the 
individual to whom imputable is known — and whatever may con- 
"tribufe to show the real character of each student ; which book 

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shall be laid before the Trustees, or their Superintending Commit- 
tee, whenever requested. 

4th. It shall be the duty of the students to « Remember the Sab- 
bath day, to keep, it holy ;" on which day, except in the cases re- 
ferred to in the first article of this section, they shall not go be- 
yond the College premises, without previous permission from a 
member of the Faculty ; nor shall any instrument of music be 
used in the College, or on the premises, the said day ; and every 
departure from this rule shall be punished with severe reprehen- 
sion. 

5th. Every student is required to treat the officers of the Col- 
lege, his fellow students, and all other persons, with respect ; and 
a violation of the requisitions of this article shall be punished ac- 
cording to the aggravation of the offence. 

6th. Whenever it shall be the pleasure of a member of the Fa- 
culty to enter the room of a student, it shall be the duty of such 
student to throw open his door without a moment's delay, and re- 
ceive him respectfully. 

7th. It is the duty of every student to maintain an honourable 
and gentlemanly deportment in all respects. 

8th. If any student shall associate with vicious company, or a 
person suspended or expelled from the College ; or shall play at 
dice, cards, billiards, backgammon, or any such games, or shall 
be guilty of contention, falsehood, intemperance, injustice, pro- 
faneness, immodesty, uncleanness, or any species of immorality, 
he shall be punished according to the aggravation of the offence. 

9th. No student shall throw a stone, or any thing else, within 
one hundred yards of any building upon the College premises, 
under pain of severe reprehension. 

10th. No student shall keep a servant, nor shall he keep fire 
arms, or any deadly weapon whatever. He shall bring no gun- 
powder upon the College premises ; nor shall horses or dogs be 
kept by students for their private use or pleasure. 

11th. No student, without permission, shall be absent from his 
room after nine o'clock at night, from the first of October'to the 
first of March ; nor after ten o'clock at night during the remain- 
der of the year, at which hour the doors shall be closed. He shall 
not remove from the room which shall have been assigned him, or 
lodge in any other room, without becoming liable to the severest 
reprehension. In case of vexatious deportment towards his room 
mate, or any other adequate cause, a student shall be subject to 
the forfeiture of the room he may occupy, and be removed to such 
other as the Faculty may assign. 

12th. Every student shall pay strict attention to cleanliness in 
his person, in his room, and in relation to every part of the Col- 
lege buildings. He is prohibited from spitting on the floor, and 
from driving nails in any part of the edifice. He shall wash him- 
self, clean his shoes, or have them cleaned^nl y in th e^ apartme,rifr ~, 
appropriated for that purpose ; nor shall he throw from any win- 
dow, water, or any thing else whatever. 






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13th. Damages done to a room, furniture, or to any part of the 
buildings or premises, shall be repaired, whatever the expense may 
be, by entirely renewing the damaged part, when practicable, or 
if that shall be impracticable, then by making the damaged part 
as good and comely as when new, and charged to the person to 
whom it is fairly assignable ; or if done to a room, and the person be 
not known, it shall be charged on all the persons occupying that 
room, unless it shall appear that the damage was not occasioned 
by fault or carelessness. Damages done on any of the premises, 
When the authors are unknown, shall be assessed on the students, 
at the discretion of the Superintending Committee, having due 
regard to the records of the Merit Book. ^ 

14th. If any student shall cut the railings, window boards, or N^ 
any other part of the College edifice, furniture, out-buildintrs. 
palings, fences, or trees, or otherwise designedly deface 
the same ; or shall designedly remove or break any 
shall make any marks, or write any letter or word on any part of 
the edifice, furniture, out-buildings, palings, fences, or trees, 
with pencil, chalk, coal, or in any other way, he shall, for the first 
offence, be publicly admonished, and for the second, suspended » 
till a decision of the Trustees shall be had, but for the third 
offence he shall be certainly expelled. 

15th. No student shall at any time smoke a pipe or cigar, in any 
of the halls or public rooms of the College, nor in any bed cham- 
ber, nor in or near any of the out-buildings on the College pre- 
mises ; nor shall any student keep any ardent spirits, or intoxi- 
cating liquors of any kind, except when prescribed by his attend- 
ing physician for medicine. 

1 6th. A person expelled or suspended from the College, shall 
not be suffered to enter upon the College premises without ex- 
press permission from the President or the Faculty ; nor shall it be 
lawful for any student to associate with him. 

17th. Every student shall maintain a sacred respect for the 
property of persons living adjacent to the College. He shall not 
enter upon their ground, nor do any injury to their possessions, on 
any pretext whatever, under pain of severe punishment, independ- 
ently of his subjecting himself to the penalty of the laws of the 
country. 

18th. Students, when required, shall give evidence in cases of 
violation of the laws of the College. Every refusal to do this, 
and every kind of persecution or manifestation of ill will from 
others, in consequence of a student's compliance with this re- 
quisition, shall alike be deemed a contempt of the Faculty, and 
shall be punished accordingly. 

19th. If any student be concerned in any combination to resist 
the laws of the College, or to disturb its order, he shall be signally 
punished. 

20th. No student shall be permitted to enter any apartment 
appropriated to the steward, without his permission, under any 
pretext whatever ; and any attempt to do so, shall be deemed an 
offence worthy of reprehension. 



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21st. No student shall enter the room of another student at 
any time without his permission. 

22d. Any member of the Faculty shall have power at all times 
to order students to go to their own rooms ; and it shall be the 
duty of every student, in such case, to obey the order without 
delay. 

23d. No by-meal shall be required from the steward, except 
when sickness shall render special attentions proper ; nor shall any 
provisions be carried to the room of any student from the stew- 
ard's department, except in case of sickness, requiring medical 
advice. 

24th. No Clubs or Societies shall be formed in the College, for 
any purposes whatever, unless a statement of the design of such 
associations, with the rules by which they are desirous of being 
governed, and their hours of meeting, be previously submitted 
to the Faculty, and receive their approbation ; and such associa- 
tions shall at all times be subject to the directions of the Faculty. 

25th. During term time, no student shall visit the City or any 
neighbouring town, nor go more than two miles from the College, 
nor enter any tavern or public house in the county of Washington, 
without permission from a member of the Faculty ; nor shall any 
student be absent more than two days together without permis- 
sion from the President or Faculty ; and in all cases of unlawful 
absence, the Faculty shall have power to send their order for a 
student to return ; and in case of disregard of such order, or un- 
necessary delay in obeying it, he shall be suspended till a decision 
of the Trustees shall be had ; but no deduction shall be made for 
board, or any other College charge, on account of absence in term 
time, except in special cases, in which such deduction shall be 
ordered by the Superintending Committee. 

L26th. In addition to all other pains and penalties, any student 
shall be liable to be fined, viz. : for absence from the College 
without permission, and not excused, not exceeding twenty-five 
cents a day — for absence from any College exercise without per- 
mission, and not excused, and for tardiness, not exceeding ten 
cents — for neglecting to return any book to the library at the 
proper time, not exceeding ten cents a day — for injuring a book, 
or any thing else, at the discretion of the Superintending Com- 
mittee. 
27th. No student shall, during term time, place himself under 
the instruction of any person not belonging to the Faculty, with- 
out express permission from the President or Faculty. 

28th. Any student shall have an honourable dismission, if his 
lawful parent or guardian request it : Provided his College bills 
are fully discharged, and his deportment during his connexion 
with the Institution has been correct. 



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SECTION III. 

Studies. 

1st. The following shall be the regular course of study in the 
College ; subject, however, to such improvement as the Trustees 
shall at any time consider important. 

FRESHMAN CLASS. 

English, Latin, and Greek languages ; Geography, Arithmetic, 
and Algebra ; History and Antiquities ; and Exercises in Reading, 
Speaking, and Composition. 

SOPHOMORE CLASS. 

Geography, History, and Elements of Chronology ; Rhetoric 
and Logic ; Logarithms, Geometry, Trigonometry, Mensuration, 
Surveying, Navigation, Conic Sections, and Euclid's Elements. 

junior class. \ 

Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, Chemistry, Fluxions, Natural 
History, History of Civil Society, Natural Religion, and Revelation. 

senior class. 
Natural and Political Law, Metaphysics, Moral Philosophy, and 
Analogy of Religion to Nature. 

Through the whole four years, attention will be paid to the 
Learned Languages, Criticism, Rhetoric, and Oratory. 

There shall be in every term such exercises in Elocution and 

Composition, such public exhibitions, and such examinations of 

the classes, before the Board of Trustees, or otherwise, as the 

Faculty shall think proper to appoint. 

•" 2d. Absence from any of the Collegiate exercises, without rea- 

^ sons which the President, Professors, or Tutors, shall consider 

L adequate, shall always be subject to censure ; and, if frequently 
repeated, may be punished with degradation to a lower class, or 
suspension. 

(3d. Indolence and negligence in relation to preparing for reci- 
tation, and particularly when found frequent, shall subject the 
student to the punishment of degradation to a lower class. 
• 4th. All unnecessary noise or disturbance "about the College 
S buildings or premises, is strictly prohibited ; and, during the re- 
I gular hours for study, no student shall be unnecessarily absent . 
L from his room, nor use any instrument of music. 

5th. The studies of the Senior Class shall uniformly terminate, 
at least one month previous to the Commencement 

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CHAPTER VI. 

i&o%nmtnttmtntu atrtr <&ouftvviw Wtavttti. 

1st. No degree, whether literary or honorary, shall ever be 
granted, except by a mandamus from the Trustees of the College. 

2d. To qualify for the degree of Bachelor in the Arts, every 
student shall have spent four years at this College, except in 
cases where students may have removed from other Colleges, 
or have entered on such advanced standing in this, as the Faculty, 
on examination, shall have judged proper. The candidates for 
this degree shall undergo a careful examination in the studies 
they shall have gone through. On receiving his diploma, each 
shall pay the sum of six dollars. 

3d. It shall be the duty of each student to perform the part or 
parts which the President or the Faculty may appoint in the Com- 
mencement exercises. He shall make out a fair copy of his per- 
formance before the day of public exhibition, and subject it to 
the examination of the President before delivery ; and he shall be 
at liberty to introduce nothing which he shall have been instruct- 
ed to expunge, or that shall not have been previously submitted. 
It shall also be the duty of every student to attend in the public 
procession. The violation of any of these regulations shall render 
a candidate liable to lose his degree that year. 

4th. No student shall be admitted to the honours of the College, 
until all his accounts shall have been settled. 

5th. Every Bachelor of Arts, in three years after taking his first 
degree, shall be entitled to the degree of Master of Arts ; provided 
he furnish the Trustees with satisfactory testimonials of the puri- 
ty of his moral character, and of a proper advancement in the 
arts, or in either of the learned professions. 

6th. Such persons as the Trustees shall approve, may be ad- 
mitted, ad eundem ; and all such honorary degrees shall be con- 
ferred in the arts, divinity, medicine, or law, as they shall consider 
advisable, and shall direct. 

7th. Every diploma shall be signed by the President and Pro- 
fessors of the College, and also by the President, Secretary, and 
such members of the Board of Trustees as shall be found conve- 
nient 
S 8th. The Commencement shall be held on the third Wednesday 
*«/- Jin December, annually. Candidates for the second degree in the 



Arts, are required to apply the week preceding. 






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CHAPTER VIL 

ist. A regular catalogue of the books belonging to this Institu^ 

tion shall be kept, with a record of the donors* names, as far as 

they can be ascertained, and the fair value of each book annexed. 

2d. Every student shall pay two dollars the first, and one dollar 

th© second term, and shall be at liberty to take out books. 

3d. The Faculty of the College shall at all times have the use 
of the Library, which shall be extended also to other officers of the 
College, and members of the Board of Trustees, subject to such 
regulations as the Superintending Committee shall adopt. The 
use of the Library shall be subject to such other modifications and 
restrictions, as the Faculty shall from time to time think proper, 
and the Superintending Committee approve. 

4th. It shall be the duty of the Librarian to attend at such stated 

times as shall be proposed by the Faculty and approved by the 

Superintending Committee, and preserve a regular account of the 

books which may be taken or returned. 

/ 5th. No student shall be at liberty to remove any book without 

i the express permission of the Librarian, or some officer of the 

J College acting as his substitute ; nor, when taken, shall he lend 

I it to another, or remove it from the premises of the College, with- 

I out permission, under a penalty of one dollar for each offence, 

\ and payment of all damage that may arise. 

^pL.Gth. It shall be the duty of each student, to take special care 
^ of every book that he may take out of the Library, and he shall 
/always be charged for any injury it may receive while in his pos- 
session. 

7th. No student shall be permitted to take out more than two 
volumes at a time. 

8th. Folios may be retained four weeks, quartos three, octavos 
two, and all other volumes only one week ; but they may at any 
time be renewed on the record of the Librarian, provided no other 
student has applied for the same. 

(9th. No student shall enter the Library, except by permission 5 
and every student shall retire orderly whenever the Librarian 
shall give direction. No student shall take down or put up a 
book without permission of the Librarian. 
10th. All books, without exception, shall be relumed to the li- 
brary, one week before each vacation, and the Librarian, six days 
before each vacation, shall report to the Superintending Commit- 
tee, all books remaining out, and to whom loaned; 



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CHAPTER VIII. 

Iterations m% fStttutntt fvom tyt Qolltat. 

f 1st. There shall be two vacations annually ; the first from the 
•J J second Wednesday in July until the second Wednesday in Sep- 
[ tember; the second, from the third Wednesday in December to 
y the second Wednesday in January. 

2d. Any student remaining absent from the College after the 
laws of the Institution require his return, and being unable to fur- 
nish a satisfactory apology, shall be subject to reproof or degrada- 
tion, as the Faculty shall judge proper. 

3d. Every student shall be responsible for his moral deport- 
ment during vacations, in the same manner as during term time* 



CHAPTER IX, 



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1st. There shall be a steward, who shall reside in the College 
buildings, and superintend the general provisions and accommo- 
dations of the students, and such other concerns relating to the 
College buildings and premises, as the Trustees or their Su- 
perintending Committee, shall direct. 

2d. At or before the close of each term, he shall make out a 
statement of the expenses incurred for board, attendance, &c. and 
submit the same to the Trustees or their Committee, for assess- 
ment among the students, and shall adjust the account of every 
Student under their direction. 

3d. All persons employed as servants in the College, shall be 
under his direction ; and it shall be his duty to see that every 
thing is executed in relation to the accommodation of students, 
that shall be required by the laws, or directed by the Trustees 
or their Superintending Committee, to whom he is responsible 
for his conduct. 

4th. He shall frequently visit all the rooms and apartments of 
the College, to guard against any injury or danger to the pre- 
mises, to report to the Superintending Committee any damages 
which he may discover to have been done ; and he shall use his 
utmost exertions at all times to preserve every part of the build- 
ings, premises, and other property, in the best condition possible. 



